BIG BOX of DEAD CAN DANCE - (20 x CD's)

DEAD CAN DANCE


 BIG BOX of DEAD CAN DANCE  (20 x CD's)

Dead Can Dance is an Australian musical project formed in 1981 in Melbourne by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. The band relocated to London, England, in May 1982. Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described Dead Can Dance's style as "constructed soundscapes of mesmerising grandeur and solemn beauty; African polyrhythms, Gaelic folk, Gregorian chant, Middle Eastern mantras, and art rock." Having disbanded in 1998, they reunited briefly in 2005 for a world tour and reformed in 2011 when they released and toured a new album, Anastasis. (Wikipedia)

Founder of the 4AD label Ivo Watts-Russell snared a catch greater than he may have imagined when he signed this Australian duo back in the early 1980's when they relocated to the UK. Although they would never have hit singles or have albums high in the mainstream charts, Dead Can Dance went on to become 4AD’s biggest selling act over the next decade, outselling the likes of the Cocteau Twins and indie rock gods The Pixies. And the music? In a word, eclectic. Drawing on primitive world folk music, modern song and a Western musical heritage stretching back to medieval Europe, the duo's music is mysterious, powerful and bewitching stuff. Dead Can Dance do the world music-ambient-classical mashup thing with a depth that defies easy description. Perhaps their secret is that they understand the universal humanity of all these disparate musical elements better than most.

Lisa Gerrard is the band's most dominant personality. Her beautiful and demonstrative vocals abound on these albums, with lyrics much less a concern than the actual timbre of her extraordinary voice. Often there's no actual lyrics at all, but rather what she describes as "a language that grows by itself". And despite the "morbid gothics" tag that has long dogged them in the UK, the idea of music as catharsis, of transcending pain to create beauty, is something Gerrard understands better than most. "Even through the music of despair there's always this little light of hope", she told me in an interview in 1996. "This is the most private relationship you can have with another person...to enable them to put things in their place in a quiet, meditative moment". The duo's other half is Brendan Perry, a fantastic multi-instrumentalist and also a gifted vocalist, sometimes accompanying Gerrard with vocal harmonies and proving a perfect foil, at other times singing alone. When heard solo on these albums his resonant baritone is perhaps less affecting than Gerrard, if only because his lovely folkish songs are often relatively straightforward. (http://ambientmusicguide.com/a-z-essential-albums/dead-can-dance/)

This Artist is brilliant IMO. If you grab any of these I suggest the box Set  Dead Can Dance - 1981-1998 (Box Set) [2001], Dead Can Dance - Aion [1990] and the compilation Dead Can Dance - A Passage In Time [1991]. Once you have heard them you will probably be back for the others..

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Dead Can Dance [1984]
https://www61.zippyshare.com/v/hwpzuFEI/file.html

Dead Can Dance [1984]
https://www61.zippyshare.com/v/hwpzuFEI/file.html

Garden Of The Arcane Delights (EP) [1984]
https://www61.zippyshare.com/v/POwbWEzd/file.html

Spleen And Ideal [1986]
https://www61.zippyshare.com/v/0S0d37jQ/file.html

Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun [1987]
https://www61.zippyshare.com/v/9NCay8CF/file.html

The Serpent's Egg [1988]
https://www61.zippyshare.com/v/YF8scDo5/file.html

Aion [1990]
https://www95.zippyshare.com/v/EcrErDxj/file.html

A Passage In Time [1991]
https://www71.zippyshare.com/v/gWSNF8Kf/file.html

Into The Labyrinth [1993]
https://www61.zippyshare.com/v/1kaVYQWV/file.html

Toward The Within [1994]
https://www61.zippyshare.com/v/0sZtjdQI/file.html

Spiritchaser [1996]
https://www61.zippyshare.com/v/3bqVYzg8/file.html

Dead Can Dance - 1981-1998 (Box Set) [2001] CD1+CD2
https://www7.zippyshare.com/v/aViqjr8I/file.html
Dead Can Dance - 1981-1998 (Box Set) [2001] CD3
https://www35.zippyshare.com/v/fD4EPXJF/file.html

Wake [2003] CD1+CD2
https://www61.zippyshare.com/v/miAe9hlL/file.html

Selections From North America [2005] CD1+CD2
https://www61.zippyshare.com/v/fR4fEyOq/file.html

Anastasis [2012]
https://www4.zippyshare.com/v/jBEW7HYH/file.html

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